- it was one of, if not the biggest amphibious invasion of the war. we only had a small window to make d-day work because of the weather. the airborne part of the invasion didn’t go very well because of weather, troops became scattered everywhere. we waited to launch d-day in 1944 because if we did it earlier, we wouldn’t have been prepared and we would have probably lost (we tried a smaller invasion in 1942 i believe and it didn’t go very well, i think it was called the dieppe raid). the campaigns in sicily and italy were to divert troops away from russia and also to take italy out of the war before d-day.
- if the germans weren’t fighting the russians as well as the western powers, would d-day still have been able to succeed?
- this day was important because we were able to get troops into france. when we got troops into france, we dealt lots of damage to german forces, we were able to capture ports and have better supply routes, and it was very demoralizing for the german people and german troops.
hope that helps :D
